Intervista con Diana Thater

L'intervista per la prima volta tradotta in italiano ripercorre la pratica di Diana Thater e apre la possibilità di scavalcare le frontiere della razionalità e quelle della compassione nel rapporto con il mondo non uman

Diana Thater : The Sympathetic Imagination

"Among the most important artists to emerge during the 1990s, Los Angeles- based Diana Thater creates groundbreaking and influential works of art in film, video, and installation that challenge the normative ways in which moving images are experienced. Her dynamic, immersive installations address key issues that span the realms of film, museum exhibitions, the natural sciences, and contemporary culture through the deployment of movement, scale, and architecture. At the heart of Thater’s work is the tension between the natural environment and mediated reality and, by extension, between the domesticated and wild, the scientific and the fantastical or magical. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including literature, animal behavior, mathematics, chess, and sociology, her evocative layered imagery engages its architectural surroundings to create complex relationships between time and space." -- Exhibition catalog, page 1

Improving the Performance of Standard Part-of-Speech Taggers for Computer-Mediated Communication

We assess the performance of off-the-shelve POS taggers when applied to two types of Internet texts in German, and investigate easy-to-implement methods to improve tagger performance. Our main findings are that extending a standard training set with small amounts of manually annotated data for Internet texts leads to a substantial improvement of tagger performance, which can be further improved by using a previously proposed method to automatically acquire training data. As a prerequisite for the evaluation, we create a manually annotated corpus of Internet forum and chat texts

Internet Corpora: A Challenge for Linguistic Processing

Natural language Processing tools are mostly developed for and optimized on newspaper texts, and often Show a substantial performance drop when applied to other types of texts such as Twitter feeds, Chat data or Internet forum posts. We explore a range of easy-to-implement methods of adapting existing part-of-speech taggers to improve their performance on Internet texts. Our results show that these methods can improve tagger performance substantially

Sculpture Projects in Münster 1997

This catalogue documents a major exhibition of contemporary sculpture held every ten years in Münster. Grasskamp's analysis of art and the city focuses on sculptural interventions in public space. Works by Oldenburg, Beuys, Asher, Serra, Judd and Haacke are discussed in relation to narrative space, architectural facade, performance, politics and site-specificity. Daniel Buren focuses on the differences between art in the museum and out in the street. Artist's statements. 85 bibl. ref